In congenital cardiac surgery, intracardiac repair procedures like ventricular septal defect (VSD), atrioventricular and tetralogy of fallot (TOF) are associated with conduction system injury. Fewer cases reported describing life threatening complication late post-operative complete heart block. We reporting 2 patients who presented block after managed by permanent pacemaker placement in AFIC C...

BACKGROUND/AIM Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a common birth defect. Many studies have reported GATA4 mutations in patients with CHD, mainly septal defects. This study aimed to investigate the GATA4 exon 1 mutation in Egyptian patients with isolated congenital heart defects as a possible causative mutation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Screening for mutations or any sequence variations in exon 1 ...

Background Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. Materials and Methods We report 5- year experiences from January 2011 to January 2016 of Imam Reza Hospital center (a tertiary referral hospital in Mashhad city, North East of Iran) that consist of 50 ...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is one of the most common types congenital heart defects. Percutaneous closure ASD relatively safe and accepted as an alternative to surgery. However, device-related complications can occur rarely. Embolization Amplatzer atrial occluder (ASO) major complication percutaneous device closure. The author presents a case early embolization ASO into left atrium, which remov...

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a common congenital heart disease (CHD) in childhood, and its incidence about 20% of CHD. Surgical closure or repair safe with acceptable results. Transcatheter VSD offers excellent Coil system developed for transcatheter occlusion. Infective endocarditis (IE) post device implantation very rare; however, it possible. IE represents surgical challenge associated...

background: hypoalbuminemia may be caused by liver disease, nephrotic syndrome, burns, protein-losing entropathy, malnutrition, and metabolic stress. alterations in albumin in metabolic stress such as cardiac surgery have been previously investigated. we studied serum albumin concentration in children with congenital heart disease and also the association of hypoalbuminemia with mortality and m...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and other epidemiological characteristics of congenital heart diseases. METHODS A retrospective population based study of children who were born in Londrina, from January '89 to December '98 (80,262 live births). Diagnoses were confirmed through autopsy, surgery, catheterization, or echocardiography. RESULTS A total of 441 patients was as certain what c...

background : due to the increased prevalence of celiac disease in chromosomal anomalies and other congenital anomalies, this study was conducted to evaluate the seroprevalence of celiac disease (cd) in patients with congenital heart defects (chd). methods: this case-control study was done on 1002 children in two groups of chd patients (n=402) and controls (n=600). the serum tissue transglutamia...

OBJECTIVE We describe patient characteristics and postoperative morbidity and mortality rates for patients with Down syndrome undergoing congenital heart disease surgery. METHODS This retrospective cohort study used the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database to compare patient characteristics and postoperative outcomes for patients (0-18 years) with or without Down syn...

This analysis concerns Fallot's tetralogy, a form of cyanotic congenital heart disease about which there is little information relating to the population of north east England, and attempts to assess the influence of familial and other variables possibly concerned in its aetiology. This disease of the heart is named after Fallot who described it in 1888, though it had been recognized as a clini...